"The politics of the family are the politics of a nation. Just as the authoritarian family is the authoritarian state in microcosm, the democratic family is the best training ground for life in a democracy."

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Source : Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1983). “Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier”, McGraw-Hill Companies

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

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“Not even let your left hand know when your right hand is donating”
“It is when you have done your work honestly, when you have contributed your share to the common fund that you begin to live.”
“Night never had the last word. The dawn is always invincible.”
“The tiny, initial clue ... by allowing us to imagine what we do not know, stimulates a desire for knowledge.”
“I enjoy going to the Y. I take all the fitness classes that my dad takes; that's sort of our bonding - anything athletic, anything sports related.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think theyâ€™re finished. The person you are right now is as transient, as fleeting and as temporary as all the people youâ€™re ever been. The one constant in our lives is change.”

Source : "When Do We Become The Final Version of Ourselves?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Rez, www.npr.org. June 19, 2015.
“There is something evocative about the idea of destruction. This act of destruction is the expression of an idea... that what we call reality is not real at all. When I draw a head, for example, I immediately feel an urge to destroy it, to erase it, because the drawing only captures an outward appearance, and for me the vital issue is what lies behind the visual form of the head.”
“Mine" he said. Adam's eyes narrowed. "I don't think so. She is mine." It would of been flattering,I thought,except that at least one of them was talking about dinner and I wasn't certain about the other.”

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